Bill Firing’s Blog

Optimizing Your Recruitment Process The fight for talent continues to be relentless. And that’s especially true for highly skilled engineering roles. The race to build a product and evaluate talent all too often can translate to a candidate recruitment process void of one critical component: convincing the talent we want

Having an updated and complete profile on LinkedIn is not just essential to potential candidates in order to be presented new opportunities. It’s also essential for hiring managers to land great talent.

As a recruiter, I am often asked by hiring managers at the start of a search, “What will it take to land a great candidate?” My answer is simple: Be active and smartly aggressive throughout the process. Indeed, it’s the collective process that is so vital, and not just counting

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal points out the highly competitive recruiting landscape for young computer science graduates – or increasingly the high number of students being lured from school with cash and perks prior to graduating. To be sure there will be lots of debate about the prudence of

Greg Smith’s very public, and indeed scathing, resignation from Goldman Sachs has certainly garnered a lot of attention in the past few days. But, I would suggest that attention will quickly fade and Mr. Smith’s decision to go out with a bang will do little good. Certainly not to himself,